Launcher black screen

help! I can't get the launcher to actually open and let me log in. I'm on windows 8 and when i try and open the launcher i just get a blank black launcher with no buttons or login options

I had the same problem but I left it up and running and it eventually loaded. It may be slow due to the Lodestone's maintenance. If you are getting this black screen, give it up to 5 minutes and then relaunch it.

same here. I get a black screen launcher

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Originally Posted by Hyperia

I had the same problem but I left it up and running and it eventually loaded. It may be slow due to the Lodestone's maintenance. If you are getting this black screen, give it up to 5 minutes and then relaunch it.

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isn't the maintenance over? the main site seems to be back live

Same problem but like Hyperia said it does load if you wait a while, at least it loaded the login button so i could enter the game.

Yeah the launcher is lagging a lot. Not sure what they did to it.

still not loading so im trying to launch it again this time as admin. Between this and no fantasia again even though its in the final stages im kind of annoyed today

same problem here.

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EDIT: After restarting PC, it brings up launcher to login credentials, but it takes about 2mins for login input to appear. but no error at least, so my suggestion is to restart pc

Same issue here - but when I went to "close the window" (Windows 7) I get the System Error -2146697211, and an URL "frontier.ffxiv.com".....

and there goes my day off not being able to play...